Chapter 3- Medieval Life

Question 1

ILLUMINATION

Answer 1

Hand painted illustration in a medieval book.

Question 2

Reeve

Answer 2

A magistrate administrating law in a village.

Question 3

Franklin

Answer 3

In the fourteenth century, one who was a land owner but not a member of the nobility.

Question 4

Tithe barn

Answer 4

A barn where peasants produce is stored as a form of taxation.

Question 5

Thatch

Answer 5

Straw used to make roofs.

Question 6

Deposed

Answer 6

Removed in a position of authority

Question 7

Franks

Answer 7

People of a Germanic nation who ruled in Western Europe for the sixteenth CE

Question 8

Martyred

Answer 8

Killed or made to suffer.

Question 9

Pagan

Answer 9

Someone who is not Christian, Jew or Muslim, but worships many gods.

Question 10

Superstition

Answer 10

A belief based on custom or fear rather than knowledge or reason

Question 11

Holy Relics

Answer 11

The physical remains of someone or something very significant to a certain religious tradition

Question 12

Orb

Answer 12

Globe with a cross symbolising a Christian monarch

Question 13

Feudalism

Answer 13

Social order in medieval Europe

Question 14

Lord

Answer 14

Chief position in the feudal system below monarch

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Clergy

Answer 15

Officials of the church

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Sceptre

Answer 16

A rod symbolising royal authority of the monarch

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Homage

Answer 17

Pledging loyalty and duties to someone of superior rank in the feudal system

Question 18

Geld

Answer 18

A form of tax

Question 19

Stirrup

Answer 19

Foot supports suspended from a saddle by straps

Question 20

Duke

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In England, a lord whose status placed him just below that of a prince; elsewhere in Europe, a ruler of a small state called a Dutchy or dukedom.

Question 21

Normandy

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Now a French province, in the Middle Ages it was a dukedom in northern France

Question 22

Lance

Answer 22

A long wooden shaft with steel point used as a weapon for mounted knights

Question 23

Maces

Answer 23

Iron-headed club

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Joust

Answer 24

Combat between two mounted knights using blunted lances

Question 25

Trebuchet

Answer 25

Heavy medieval machine that uses a sling to hurl large missiles

Question 26

Artillery

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Large mounted firearms such as the cannon

Question 27

Pike

Answer 27

Long spear-Like weapon used by foot soldiers

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Motte

Answer 28

A mound upon which a castle was built

Question 29

Moat

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Water-filled defensive ditch surrounding a castle

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Keep

Answer 30

Innermost tower of a castle

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Palsied

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Tall fence made of pointed timber stakes driven into the ground

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Concentric

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Having a common centre

Question 33

Curtain wall

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Outer wall surrounding an inner wall in a castle

Question 34

Mass

Answer 34

Roman Catholic Church service

Question 35

Sermon

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Moral or religious lecture delivered by a priest

Question 36

Vernacular

Answer 36

Everyday language spoken by a particular group or class of people

Question 37

Cardinal

Answer 37

Leading clergyman Whois a member of the pope’s council, or sacred college, and who has the power to elect the pope from among his own group

Question 38

Arch Bishop

Answer 38

Head bishop

Question 39

Bishop

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Clergyman who governs a diocese, a large church district.

Question 40

Edict

Answer 40

Order issued by a monarch or other person in authority

Question 41

Sacrament

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Sacred Christian ceremony; in the Catholic Church, for example, baptism and marriage

Question 42

Cathedral

Answer 42

Main church of a diocese; containing the bishops throne